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The Great Gatsby
The 1920s
v The 1920s were called ‘The Jazz Age’, ‘The Decade of Optimism’ and ‘The
Roaring Twenties’
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v The 18th Amendment to the Bill of Rights allowed women the right to
vote, which created a new found independence
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v New music such as Jazz allowed black musicians to step into the limelight
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v Prohibition was enforced in January 1920
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Speakeasies started to pop up all over the country –
100,000 in NY alone and these were very popular with the flappers
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v Jobs were easier to find and were better paid than before
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middle-class women became better off, they enjoyed greater social
freedom
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v By 1929, more than 26 million cars were registered in the U
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v New buildings and skyscrapers were being built and secret ‘speakeasies’
were set up as alcohol was illegal
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v There were major differences in social class and wealth – 40% lived on
farms in poverty, and 90% of these farms lacked electricity
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Social Values
During the 1920s, some Americans challenged traditional values and the
proper behavior of the time
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People from the older generation felt that the younger generation’s
behavior was morally wrong and should be punished
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New York
v The Jazz Age was the post World War One movement
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v New York was the central city of partying, and it had 250,000 speakeasies
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v Bu the 1929s, New York boasted nearly 6 million residents and served as
a booming center for immigrants and migrants entering the city through
road, rail and boats
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After breaking off the engagement because she was unwilling to live on
his small salary, they both went their separate ways
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There he met and fell in love with a seventeenyear-old Zelda Sayre
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However, they got asked to leave
because of their raucous parties
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His next novel, Tender in the Night, was unsuccessful so Fitzgerald moved
to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter
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v Gangsters (like Al Capone) also smuggled alcohol into America and made
millions of dollars as a result
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v Many people wanted to act like them
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Quotes About The Fitzgeralds
v Biographer Nancy Milford described them as ‘The apotheosis of the
twenties’
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v ‘The reckless exuberance manifested by the Fitzgeralds was typical of a
young, affluent generation reacting not only to the tensions of the war just
ended but to the emotional reserve of their elders’
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The Great Gatsby
v In the 1920s women felt empowered when they received the right to vote,
the popular use of phones, radios and greater education opportunities in
American made women bold enough to cut their hair and dump their
heels
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AO3 – 25 separate references (often one line or one phrase)
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ü Analyze characters
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ü Find book reviews from newspapers
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ü Historians / Universities / Teachers / Other Authors

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